Proverbs 15:17 (NASB)
Better is a dish of vegetables where love is
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

Proverbs 17:1 (NASB)
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it
Than a house full of feasting with strife.

ALL:

I'm quite sure we ALL have many, many and varied "ways" that
we were raised. But, since I'm a little older and wiser, I would
say that our "nature" or "character" is shaped on the "ways"
we search for "where love is".

BUT..................

Being "weak" in the area of knowing what "real" love is, we can
EASILY be fooled into thinking that "ONLY":

..."money and success = blessings / love from God"!!!

Each soul "should" know the difference but the devil is VERY clever!!!

The Body of Christ has taken many "turns" over the last few decades
and I believe is being "tested and refined" because the world is facing
entrance into a "strife" like NO OTHER IN HISTORY!!! And VERY,
VERY MANY are "choosing" NOT TO NOTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(posted 8/224/10)
Smiley face engineers!!! (What if the end isn't near?)

ALL:

This morning, I believe God led me miraculously to something I've
been wondering about. I wanted to take something back to a store
and, on my mind "as" I parked my car (early this morning), I had been
thinking about some of the modern evangelists and the techniques
they use. This has spread through Christianity as if it "supposed" to
be part of Christianity to "SMILE" extremely big all the time. If you go
into Walmart and cruise the Christian books, it's like the one with the
BIGGEST SMILE "WINS"!!!!!!!! In other words, it's like they are saying,
"SEE, I HAVE THE ANSWER....CAN'T YOU TELL!!!" And, before I could
get out of my car, the words, "smiley face engineers", came to me.

Then, as I was waiting on someone to come to the counter, I noticed
that a copy of USA TODAY from the day before (August 23) was laying
there so I just started looking through it. AMAZINGLY there was this
article below in the FIRST SECTION (9A) of the paper. I was shocked
at how "WELL" the article fit my thoughts this morning, AND NOW, as
I look at it, the PICTURE with the article EVEN MORE SO!!! (I also put
below the words used under the title in the newspaper!!!)



...What if the end isn't near?

..."Too many evangelical Christians welcome the biblical rapture with an
...unsettling eagerness. This fatalistic view serves neither fellow humans
...nor the planet. A new breed of believers thankfully is taking another
...path toward Jesus."

LINK

Normally, I don't read USA Today or any newspaper (I just usually
read google news or something off the computer).

Anyway.................

Recently, I went to an insurance convention. I'll have to admit that
they "DO" have a handle on "how" to be successful and MANY of the
people were Christians and they DID have a Sunday service. But, I
just find that NOO THING - NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING is EVER
mentioned about the Lord's return (the rapture) by money / "success"
seekers. But they have TOTALLY played into this writer's hands and
he is VERY GLAD TO "SEE" this "TYPE" taking precedent over the
"TYPE" that "see" "DOOM AND GLOOM" COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry but it's sort of funny...........

I had someone call me from this same insurance "group". Now he
was a very nice person and trying to "help", but, his last words were,
"I hope to see you up on stage in the near future!!!", (speaking of
those who get rewards at the convention). He was cheering me on
and trying to tell me how GREAT "they" were. The "words" that they
use are almost "cultish"!!!!!!!!! What I mean is, you MUST adhere to
"how" they talk and think in order to REALLY "FIT" into "their"
"SUCCESS" mode.

EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!! I am old enough to have seen and "felt" this
type thinking before. I've seen it TAKE OVER PEOPLE!!!! What will
happen to this "crowd" when it ALL hits the fan!!!!!!????????
I think you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!!

Calvin